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AN120435 – Private Hospital Industry Nurses' (State) Award

29. STAFF AMENITIES

(a) The employer shall provide for the use of employees:

(1) A suitable changing room and adequate washing and toilet facilities;

(2) A full-length locker fitted with lock and key or other suitable place for the safe keeping of clothing and personal effects of such employee;

(3) An employer shall provide for an employee morning and afternoon tea, supper and early morning tea (which shall include tea or coffee together with milk and sugar) when the employee is on duty, at times appropriate for the partaking thereof, and shall provide also for such an employee, who requires them, meals of a reasonable standard, which fall due during the duty period, and for such meals so provided may make a charge, provided that the charge for breakfast shall be the sum set out in Item 18 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates and the sum set out in Item 19 of Table 2 for other meals. The charges referred to in this subclause are to be adjusted in accordance with the movement in wage rates following State Wage Case decisions. The employers are entitled to set prices for meals at a level to cover labour and ingredient costs.

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